Section 1. The name of this organization shall be THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF PLATTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA (herein referred to as the “Party”). 

Section 2. The objectives of the Party shall be the maintenance of government of, by and for the people, according to the Constitution and laws of the United States and the State of Nebraska, the expansion of membership, and the recruitment of individuals for elective and appointive office. 

Section 3. The membership of the Party shall be composed of all registered Republican voters of Platte County, Nebraska, who desire to support the objectives and platform of the Party.

Section 1. A Convention shall be held at the time and place designated by the County Chairman pursuant to law and shall conduct any business which may properly come before it, including the election of a County Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers as it deems necessary. In even numbered years, the Party will conduct a County Convention between March 1st and April 10th at an hour and place to be designated by the County Chairman. The Party shall cause a notice to be published at least seven (7) days prior to the date of the Convention setting forth the date, time, and place of the Convention. Members desiring to become delegates and planning to attend and participate as a voting member of the County Convention shall register with the Election Commissioner of Platte County between January 1st and March 1st.

Section 2. A special convention shall be called if a majority of registered county delegates submit a request for a convention. Once requests by a majority of county delegates calling for a special convention have been received, the County Chairman shall convene such special convention within 30 days and give notice as provided herein. The special convention shall conduct any business which may properly come before it, including the removal and election of county officers. 

Section 3. At all conventions, each delegate thereto shall be entitled to register his or her individual vote, and it shall be unlawful to attempt to bind any delegate by any party or convention rules requiring the delegates from any political subdivision to such County Convention to vote as a unit. The authority held by delegates to the County Convention, by reason of their registration, shall be deemed personal in its nature and no such delegate may, by power of attorney, proxy or in any other way, authorize any other person in his or her name or on his or her behalf to appear at such County Convention and cast ballots therein or participate in the organization and transaction of any business at such Convention. 

Section 4. The Convention of the duly registered delegates, when in session, shall be the governing body of the Party and when such Convention is not in session, the County Central Committee shall be the governing body. 

Section 5. At all conventions and meetings provided for herein, the rules of order shall be Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised. Any proposed bylaws and resolutions shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised.  

Section 1. General Management. The general management of the affairs and governance of the Party in various counties shall be fixed in the County Central Committee, subject to the direction of the County Convention. 

Section 2. County Central Committee. The County Central Committee shall have the power to approve the allocation, budgeting, and disbursement of County Party funds. The County Central Committee shall consist of two persons from each district of the Board of Supervisors within the County, to be selected at delegate caucuses from each district held at the County Convention or in such other manner as may be authorized by the Convention. State Central Committee members residing in the County shall serve on the County Central Committee. 

Section 3. Officers. The officers of the County Party organization shall be a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, herein referred to as the Executive Committee. They shall have the powers and duties usually incident to their respective offices, subject to the direction of the County Central Committee and the County Convention. They shall be elected by the County Convention delegates. If there is a vacancy, then they shall be elected by the County Central Committee to serve until the next County Convention. The County Chairman shall convene a County Convention pursuant to Article II for the purpose of holding elections for state convention delegates, state convention alternates, county officers, and members to the State Central Committee and County Central Committee. The policies, affairs and business of the Party shall be administered by the Executive Committee. The terms of office of the County Party officers and the members of the County Central Committee shall be approximately two years, or until their respective successors have been selected. The County Chairman shall have power, with the approval of the County Central Committee, to appoint such additional committees and committee chairs, from time to time, as circumstances may warrant. 

Section 4. Meetings of County Central Committee. Meetings of the County Central Committee, in addition to meetings herein before prescribed, may be called by the County Chairman or by written request of not less than one-half of the County Central Committee members. The County Chair shall convene a meeting of the County Central Committee at least once every four months. A quorum shall exist if one-half plus one of the non-vacant positions are present. 

Section 5. County Officer Succession Plan and Unfilled Vacancy. Whenever there is a County Party elected officer vacancy, it shall be immediately filled as follows: A vacant Chair position shall be filled temporarily by the Vice Chairman with a County Central Committee election held within 45 days to fill the Chair position. A vacancy in the County Secretary or Treasurer position shall be filled temporarily by a vote of the remaining officers. If an unfilled Chair vacancy exists for 30 days and there are no remaining officers, the State Party Congressional District Chair, with the approval of the State Chair, shall name an acting Chair who shall convene a County Central Committee meeting within 45 days for the purpose of holding officer elections. The acting Chair shall cause a notice to be published at least seven (7) days prior to the date of the meeting announcing the officer elections and setting forth the date, time, and place of the meeting. 

Section 6. Duty to Provide County Party Candidate Access to Electorate. A Party member seeking candidacy to a County Party office shall, upon a request made by the candidate, be provided contact information held by the County Party enabling the candidate to contact all members, whether they be County Central Committee members or County Party delegates, who will be voting in the County Party election to which the candidate is seeking office. Such contact information shall be transmitted by the County Party to the candidate within 48 hours of such request.  

Section 1. All nominations for Republican candidates in any Platte County office to be filled at a special election, or any other office to be filled by the electors of Platte County, which are required by the provisions of Chapter 32 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, as amended, shall be made by a majority vote of a quorum of the County Central Committee in the manner provided by law. The County Chairman shall call a meeting of the County Central Committee to be held at a place designated by the County Chairman within such time and in the manner provided by law. The County Chairman shall cause the certificates of such nominations to be properly filed. 

Section 2. Unless otherwise provided for by law, should a vacancy occur for any Republican candidate in any Platte County office for any cause before any election, such vacancy shall be filled by a majority vote of a quorum of the County Central Committee. The County Chairman shall call a meeting of the County Central Committee to be held at a place designated by the County Chairman within such time as to allow filling of the necessary certificates with the proper officers in the manner provided by law, and the County Chairman shall cause such certificates to be properly filed.  

Section 1. County parties, including its officers and staff, may endorse a Republican candidate seeking a federal, statewide, legislative, multi-county, county, or local political office for political subdivisions geographically connected to the county in a contested election if a request for endorsement is made by the candidate seeking endorsement and the endorsement is approved by a two-thirds vote of the County Central Committee. In the absence of a request for endorsement and a two-thirds vote of the County Central Committee, the County Party, including its officers and staff shall be prohibited from endorsing and financially supporting said candidate in a contested election. Contested election shall mean an election in which two or more Republicans are seeking the same political office in either a primary, special, or general election. 

Section 2. The County Party, including its officers and staff, shall not endorse a non-Republican candidate in an election in which a Republican is a candidate. Any officer or member found to have violated this provision may be removed from their office or committee and a vacancy shall exist if a majority of the County Central Committee members vote to remove said officer or member. 

Section 3. Endorsement shall mean: (1) a public display or statement of support either by print, electronic media, or a written statement; or (2) a reported campaign contribution. Materials created and distributed for the purpose of increasing voter turnout including but not limited to door-to-door distribution of Republican candidate literature, shall not be a prohibited endorsement. Financially supporting shall not include resources made available from the Republican National Committee through the State Party and the County Party to all Republican candidates, including but not limited to, mobile canvassing applications, walk lists, call lists, or data. 

Section 4. Nothing in these sections shall restrict the County Party, including its officers and staff, from endorsing a Republican candidate in an election at any level when he or she is the only declared Republican candidate seeking that office. 

This Constitution may be amended by any County Convention with a majority vote of those present and voting. This Constitution may also be amended by the County Central Committee but only if a quorum is present and at least two-thirds (2/3) of those present and voting vote in favor of the proposed amendment. Such vote by the County Central Committee shall be taken at a County Central Committee meeting called specifically to consider such amendments, and a written copy of the proposed amendments together with any section proposed to be deleted, shall accompany the notice of such meeting. The next subsequent County Convention may suspend such amendment if a motion is made and adopted by a majority of the delegates present.